Epler v. Funk

This is an action by an endorse^ against the maker to recover $100, payable to the order of Henry Hamer twelve months after date. It is endorsed to J. M. Funk, without recourse. The defence is, that the consideration of the note was for the right of vending Hoover’s patent corn-stalk cutting-machine, in Dauphin county; that the machine was entirely worthless, and that defendant was induced to enter into the contract by combination, contrivance, and fraud. The plaintiff, after proving the handwriting of the maker and endorser, offered the note in evidence, which was objected to, because, the…